The four candidates left willing to stand for the Conservative leadership race will find out who’s going through to its final ballot next week. The next stage after is the membership vote so it’s nail biting stuff.
It’s worth thinking back on the last five leaders they’ve had, because all of them have been Prime Ministers and led the country through some testing times. They even saw out Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
Presently the political furore is largely centred around Sir Keir Starmer and his alleged dealings with a Labour donor, but the small boats crisis continues and in spite of policy pronouncements, it hasn’t stopped.
It isn’t particularly scientific to imagine what each of the candidates might be able to achieve if they were to have at it now, and neither is it appropriate since the party itself is trying to decide its own way forward.
